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Punch Magazine Cartoons from Punch 4 vol set of political cartoons from Punch magazine from 1845-1901. All volumes have a large folding frontispie...

Hocking, Silas K; Ernest Prater (illustrator) Smuggler's Keep (1913) Silas K Hocking was a prolific early-20th-century English novelist. Smuggler'...

Mossop, George Running the Gauntlet. Some Recollections of Adventure (1990) Laminated two-colour unclipped dustjacket, printed boards with the sam...

Colonel R Meinertzhagen Kenya Diary 1902-1906 Oliver & Boyd, London, 1957. Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edit...

Cape Times Limited. (Compilers) Cape Times South African Directory 1936. Boards are stained rubbed and early cracking of spine. The text is crisp ...

Juta & Co. (Compilers) Juta's Directory of Cape Town Suburbs and Simon's Town 1926 Staining of boards. Doodles on title page. Corner tears on V an...

Bewick (Thomas) WORKS (Memorial Edition) 5 volumes. Title page vignettes, numerous black and white engravings in each volume, contemporary half le...

Tattersfield (Nigel) THOMAS BEWICK, THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATIVE WORK 3 volumes, 392, 948, 240 pages - 1580 pages in all, colour frontispiece portrai...

Van Riebeeck Society. VAN RIEBEECK SOCIETY - FIRST SERIES - COMPLETE SET OF 50 VOLUMES. A complete set of the First Series, 50 volumes in the orig...

Cornwallis Harris, Captain W Portraits of Game and Wild Animals in Southern Africa (1986) This is a fine copy of the Sable Press facsimile edition...

Percival (A. Blaney) A GAME RANGER ON SAFARI. Edited by E.D. Cuming First edition: xv, 305 pages, frontispiece, folding map at the back,23 full pa...

Stigand (Captain C.H.) HUNTING THE ELEPHANT IN AFRICA AND OTHER RECOLLECTIONS OF THIRTEEN YEARS' WANDERINGS With an Introduction by Colonel Theodo...

Van Riebeeck Society (compilers) Second Series Van Riebeeck Society, Second series, Volumes 19 - 42 in immaculate condition. Missing vol. 22. Plea...

John Steinbeck To A God Unknown (first edition 1935 of author's third book) First edition, first impression. Published by Heinemann in 1935. First...

Moore Ritchie With Botha in the Field. Insect damage to spine and some scattered light foxing. Only 68 pages, but has 5 diagrams and 82 photos mos...

Bromwich, Michael National Parks and Wildlife Management. Rhodesia and Zimbabwe. 1928-1990 Copy 615 of signed limited edition of 1500 copies. Hing...

Cooper, Michael Robert, and Michael Dirk Cooper The Emperor Moths of Kwa-Zulu-Natal (2002) Laminated unclipped dustjacket with colour photographic...

Bryson, Brick; foreword by John Cannon TATENDA, Fifty Magic Years in Rhodesia (signed by author) (2003) This autobiography, signed by the author o...

Christison, Grant Loyal Little Natal Loyal Little Natal is an attempt to bring to light several lesser known aspects of life in early Natal; to ca...

A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland Encyclopaedia Britannica, Facsimile of first edition of 1771 (3 volumes: A-B; C-L; M-Z) This facsimile of the o...

Seton, Ernest Thompson (author and illustrator) Two Little Savages. A Book of American Woodcraft for Boys (1914) As well as being the author of se...

The Star Office (Compilers) Through the Red Revolt on the Rand. Pamphlet with fifty four photos of the Revolt and its putting down. An article "Th...

Rudyard Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) & The Five Nations (1903) - 2 x first editions of Kipling's early verse Barrack-Room Ballads publishe...

Struthers, Robert Briggs (1822-1892); Patricia L Merrett and Ronald Butcher (editors) Hunting Journal 1852-1856 (1991) Colour-painting-illustrated...

Oosthuizen, Dr S P R Register van die Provinsiale Raad van die Oranje-Vrystaat. 1911-1986 This volume, by one of the leading historians of the Ang...

Muirhead, J.T. Ivory Poaching and Cannibals in Africa Hard cover, pages. viii + 296, b & w plate as frontis, gilt decoration on front and gilt tit...

Lichtenstein, W.H.C. Foundation of the Cape / About the Bechuanas, Being a History of the Discovery and Colonisation of Southern Africa Foundation...

Maydon, H.C. (Major) Big Game Shooting in Africa The Lonsdale Library, Vol. XIV. Hardcover, gilt titles on spine, pp. 445, illustrated with black ...

Lydekker, R The Game Animals of Africa The improved and revised Second Edition. Hardcover, 483 pages, black and white plates and illustrations. In...

Denis D. Lyell The African Elephant and its Hunters Red cloth boards with gilt decoration on front and gilt titling on spine, 221 pages, illustrat...

Czech, Kenneth (Dr.) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 Hardcover, x + 313 pages, gilt titling on spine. Biblio...

Gehrts, M A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland The Adventures, Observations and Experiences of a Cinematograph actress in West African Forest...

Bunbury, Charles J.F. Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope with Excursions into the Int...

Various contributors Sixteen-University of Cape Town-School of Librarianship Booklets 1950-1976 Sixteen University of Cape Town School of Libraria...

A. J. Wauters STANLEY'S EMIN PASHA EXPEDITION 1 volume. First edition 1890. Brown buckram boards. Gilt title to spine. xvii, 378 pages, fold-out c...

Dorothea Fairbridge Historic Farms of South Africa. The Wool, The Wheat, and the Wine of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Publisher's tan cloth bindin...

W. K.-L. Dickson The Biograph in Battle - Its Story in the South African War. Related, with Personal Experiences, by the author. (1901) xix + 296p...

Professor S. Howard Hansford JADE - Essence of Hills and Streams. The Von Oertzen Collection of Chinese and Indian Jades. The legendary jade colle...

T. B. Glanville Abroad and at Home (1878) Original maroon cloth, little scuffed and marked (a few white spots on the front and rear boards). Bindi...

Capt. R.S. Rattray Religion & Art in Ashanti 1 volume. First edition 1927.  Publishers red cloth with blind-stamped borders. Gilt titles to spine....

An Average Observer THE BURDEN OF PROOF 1 volume. Second edition October 1902. Scarce publication. Royal blue boards. Gilt title to spine. [2], 12...

Hugh Marshall Hole The Jameson Raid. 306 pages, 8 illustrations, 2 maps all intact. Text in very good condition. Boards stained and faded. Wrapper...

Matthew Arnold Sohrab and Rustum 1 volume. Fine bindings by Riviere & Son. Full calf blue covers with gilt decorative borders. Raised bands with g...

A. Barton Hepburn The Story of an Outing 1 volume. First edition 1913. Very scarce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Barton_Hepburn   Publishers b...

Archibald Forbes The Afghan Wars: 1839-42 and 1878-80 1 volume. First edition 1892. Publishers original covers. Gilt title with gilt vignette to f...

H. Pirie-Gordon. (Military Editor); T. E. Lawrence A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force Under the Command of General ...

Henry Roe Mission to Africa 1 volume. First edition 1873. Very scarce. Publishers pictorial blue cover with gilt title. Gilt title to spine. Blind...

S. Baring-Gould & C. A. Bampfylde A History of Sarawak 1 volume. First edition 1909. Includes original letters written by the son of one of the tw...

Rev Samuel Broadbent A Narrative of the first Introduction of Christianity Amongst the Barolong Tribe of Bechuanas, South Africa: 1 volume. First ...

Frederick William Hugh Migeod Through British Cameroons 1 volume. First edition 1925. Publishers olive green cloth with blind-stamped borders. Tit...

Sihlobosami Roman Legion on Libyan Fields 1 volume. First edition 1887. Scarce. Wine cloth boards with black title and vignette. Gilt title with v...

D. K. Flickinger Off Hand Sketches of Men and Things in Western Africa 1 volume. First edition 1857.  Decorative blind-stamped brown cover. Gilt t...

Cohen (Louis) REMINISCENCES OF KIMBERLEY First edition: 436 pages, brown cloth, titled gilt on the upper cover and spine, which is starting to fra...

Cousins (Rev. H.T.) FROM KAFIR KRAAL TO PULPIT 160 pages, frontispiece portrait., illustrations, pictorial green cloth titled gilt on the upper co...

Cronwright Schreiner (S.C.) THE LAND OF FREE SPEECH First edition: 456 pages + [1] - appendix musical score - Soldiers of the Queen, frontispiece ...

De Jager (E.J.) CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART IN SOUTH AFRICA (Collectors' edition signed by the author) First edition: 31 pages of letterpress and 129...

Eden (T.E.) SEARCH FOR NITRE First edition: 133 pages, blind stamped green cloth titled gilt on the upper cover, where the cloth is starting to bu...

Eveleigh (Rev. W.) THE SETTLERS AND METHODISM 1820 - 1920 First edition: 198 pages, frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations, green cl...

Freeman (J.J.) A TOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA First edition: 492 pages + 16 pages publisher's catalogue, folding map coloured in outline held in place sim...

Leonard (Charles) PAPERS ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA 1885-1895 With papers by Advocate Wessels and Advocate Auret First edition: 46...